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Top 25 Clean energy research institutes based in France

RevenueBase identified 100 clean energy research institutes headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 4,743 professional contacts across them, including 1,340 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.

This list covers clean energy research institutes headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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The 25 largest clean energy research institutes based in France

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 100 clean energy research institutes based in France, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 16, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to clean energy research institutes: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
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1Indirect evidenceNoisy-le-grand, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026501-1,000452 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Pour une énergie propre et mieux utilisée Notre mission : fournir des solutions énergétiques performantes et économiques, tout en minimisant l'impact environnemental.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
2Partial evidenceSaint Paul Lez Durance Cedex, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026501-1,000201 contacts →

Partial evidence

“IRESNE est un institut du CEA implanté sur le centre CEA de Cadarache.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
3Partial evidenceToulouse, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026201-500166 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Le Laboratoire plasma et conversion d'énergie est une unité mixte de recherche commune au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), à l’Institut National Polytechnique…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
4Indirect evidenceBrumath, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-200164 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Nous croyons en l’énergie solaire photovoltaïque comme incontournable source d’énergie durable.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
5Partial evidenceVersailles, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-200122 contacts →

Partial evidence

“VEDECOM est un Institut de Transition Énergétique et R&D, dédié à la recherche de solutions innovantes pour une mobilité durable.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
6Indirect evidenceMontpellier, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-200121 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Ensemble, passons à l’action!”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
7Indirect evidenceLe Bourget Du Lac, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026201-500109 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“L’INES est un leader mondial de la R&D, de l'expertise et la formation pour les technologies solaires avancées, leur intégration dans les systèmes et la gestion intelligente de…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
8Indirect evidenceMontpellier, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-200108 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Elements produit de l'électricité verte à partir de centrales photovoltaïques, éoliennes et hydro avec pour ambition de synchroniser la consommation des territoires avec leur mix…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
9Partial evidencePlouzané, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20082 contacts →

Partial evidence

“At France Energies Marines, we bring together and coordinate a range of scientific expertise and resources to validate standards and produce the innovations essential for the…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
10Partial evidenceVilleneuve-d'ascq, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20064 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Créé en 1989, le laboratoire L2EP (ULR 2697) est né de la volonté de 4 établissements partenaires, l’Université de Lille, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Centrale Lille Institut et…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
11Strong evidenceFranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20054 contacts →

Strong evidence

“LRCS is a cutting-edge public research lab in the field of energy storage and conversion.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
12Strong evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20039 contacts →

Strong evidence

“CANOPY ENERGIES pledges to fight global warming, focusing on producing clean energy and reducing carbon emissions.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
13Partial evidenceBalma, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5029 contacts →

Partial evidence

“More than 50% of energy is consumed in the form of heat and more than a third of the energy consumed is lost as heat (equivalent to 2450 Mt of CO2 per year).”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
14Strong evidenceCourbevoie, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 2026n/a24 contacts →

Strong evidence

“With its Research & Innovation division, ENGIE is building today the low-carbon energy system of tomorrow.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
15Indirect evidenceLyon, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5022 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Hespul est une association de loi 1901 dont l'objet social est le développement des énergies renouvelables et de l'efficacité énergétique.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
16Indirect evidencePau, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20015 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Le laboratoire SIAME (Sciences pour l'Ingénieur Appliquées à la Mécanique et au génie Electrique) est une unité de recherche de l’Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
17Partial evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 20261-1014 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Zenon Research est un think tank dédié aux innovations et technologies pour le climat et un monde bas carbone.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
18Indirect evidenceSophia-antipolis, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5014 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The Center for Applied Mathematics (CMA) of Mines Paris - PSL develops an original scientific approach by applying its fundamental scientific skills in modelling and the…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
19Indirect evidenceToulouse, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5014 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Au coeur des énergies renouvelables et citoyennes”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
20Indirect evidencePalaiseau, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-20012 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
21Indirect evidenceMur-sur-allier, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5011 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Pour l'équipe MetalR, les énergies renouvelables sont une évidence, et leur expertise une réelle assurance de qualité.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
22Indirect evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202611-5010 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Créé en 1979, l'Observatoire des Énergies Renouvelables, plus connu sous le nom d'Observ'ER, est devenu une référence dans le domaine des énergies renouvelables et de la…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
23Strong evidenceParis, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 202651-2008 contacts →

Strong evidence

“At EcoStride Energy, our vision is to lead the world towards a sustainable and carbon-neutral future by harnessing the power of clean, renewable energy sources.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
24Indirect evidenceSaint-malo & Pérenchies, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 20261-107 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Les interventions de Cohérence ÉNERGIES relèvent essentiellement d’études, de missions d’assistance à maîtrise d’ouvrage en amélioration énergétique et énergies renouvelables, de…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026
25Indirect evidenceBesançon, FranceHQ checked Sep 16, 20261-107 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Une énergie gratuite et illimitée!”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026

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Clean energy research institutes based in France at a glance

As of Sep 16, 2026
28.3%Verified-email coverage
47.4Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
12.0%Largest-city concentration · Paris
Sep 16, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
41
11-50
20
51-200
23
201-500
7
501-1,000
5
1,001-5,000
3
10001+
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 100 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among clean energy research institutes, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “clean energy research institutes”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names clean energy research institutes), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among clean energy research institutes, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,340 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names clean energy research institutes, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many clean energy research institutes are there based in France?

RevenueBase identified 100 clean energy research institutes headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Groupe Coriance, headquartered in Noisy-Le-Grand, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most clean energy research institutes?

Paris leads with 12 headquartered companies, followed by Toulouse (5) and Grenoble (3).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,340 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 100 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.